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HMS Eurydice

Off Dunnose, Isle of Wight

A training ship capsized by a sudden snowstorm, said to return as a ghost.

The frigate Eurydice was returning from the Caribbean with over 300 men when a sudden snow squall hit her off the Isle of Wight. She capsized and sank within minutes.

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When
24 March 1878
Where
50.6100, -1.1800
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

A memorial is in Shanklin churchyard. Dunnose is near Ventnor.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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